Subject: Re: Xserver failure
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Fr3aK3r <fr3ak3rman@zonnet.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/11/2004 15:19:56
On Saturday 10 January 2004 19:11, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:29:00PM +0100, Fr3aK3r wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Installed NetBSD 1.6.1 recently from iso cd image and it's up and running
> > nicely.
> >
> > The X server is the one thing i can't seem to get running.
> > Looking at the docs on netbsd.org i'd say i need to configure /etc/ttys
> > and / etc/wscons.conf for several screens to become available, but
> > another doc on netbsd.org says 1.6.1 configures these things
> > automatically.
> >
> > I don't see any /dev/ttyE entries and the X server fails with no screens
> > found
>
> Sparc/sparc64 don't support wscons for now
>
> > when i try to start startx. Also i don't know if the framebuffer is
> > actually coming up since dmesg|grep fb does not show any framebuffer.
> >
> > Only dmesg|grep ATI shows :
> >
> > ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro (VGA display, revision 0x5c) at pci1 dev 2
> > function 0 not configured
> >
> > Any pointers or ideas ?
>
> What kind of sparc is it ?
> For now only sbus-based graphic adapters are supported, but I think there
> are some unofficial patches available for PCI.

Oh sorry, my mistake that i forgot to mention that one.
It is indeed a pci based system -> Ultra10.
It has the ATI 3D Rage pro card in it.
Might be that Xfree has a driver i can use ?

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		Fr3aK3r